Etymologies

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Larva is therefore an appropriate term for that stage of an insect's life during which its final form is still hidden or masked, and New Latin lārva was thus applied in 1691 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish botanist who originated our system of classifying plants and animals.

However, it now appears to have a far more complicated history: German Bismut came from New Latin bismutum, itself altered from medieval Latin vismutum, from obsolete German Wismut, itself a compound of Wise -, ` meadow, 'plus Mut, ` mine claim'.

The same sources attributed skimmia to New Latin and described Taka-Diastase as a trademark, without stating, unfortunately, whence the trademark came (admittedly the taka could be Japanese in origin; I must confess ignorance on that point).